IC stands for Insane Crazy

Yeah, I was in Iowa City this past Sunday - Monday. And it was glorious. So much has happened between my last post and now. So much to report, hopefully I can recall it all. Fire synapses, fire. Mandy Moore in a Teddy...what? That didn't happen. I wish. Okay, just kidding...it did happen :).

Anywho. Just to respond to comments. Shawn, I would have loved to have spent part of my New Years celebration with you guys in IC, however, I was already on the road at that time. Instead I spent my time going to Bennigan's and the movie Meet the Fockers. Shannon, bummed I didn't get to see you. Possibly in May. My GREs went well. I scored well enough to get into all the colleges I'm applying to, albeit, I'm not sure how competitive I am especially for financial aid. |shrugs| I might be taking them again as well as the subject GRE in Computer Science in the fall. And I completely agree with everything Shawn said about my OCD tendancies. Refer to his comment please. My OCD is very randomly selective. And it's not un-conquerable.

Okay, so we played music for this huge youth convention this weekend. It was so fun! We stayed at the Mariott in Cedar Rapids, IA and played for about 800 kids. We got to hang out with them, lead them in worship. We had some open prayer time where any of them could come up and we'd pray for them. It was so moving to see these kids get up and share some of their deepest stuff with the whole group and we all prayed for them. It was such a Spirit filled weekend. It was bitter sweet though because it was the kind of thing I originally thought I would be doing when I joined YE. When I applied originally, I applied for a national band. They do tons of youth conventions like the one we did this weekend. I got talked into doing international team. We don't really do youth conventions, this was very much an exception. But heh, I'll be in Australia in a week right!? I'm pumped.

Now, Iowa City insanity action stuff. I stayed with Emily (word up em, thx for the place to crash). We had a good time. It was such a gift to just not feel like I was on team for a night. We went to Village Inn, then College Street Billiards. We watched Eternal Sunshine and went and saw Closer. Decent movie. I can't decide how much I liked it yet, it's on my "to be analyzed after a second viewing" mental shelf.
Anyway, driving back to Cedar Rapids on Tuesday night made me realize how scarred I am from my accident. I was so nervous. Em can attest to it. Black Ice, it's like those fricking sharks that bury themselves under the sand and blend in, then you step on them and they kill you.

I'm stopping there for now. I might post again tomorrow.

in Christ,
jason